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This May 26, read the profound words spoken
by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on Memorial Day, 1884.
"…amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.”
Those fine words, among countless others from the greats who made America, have been lost—and now they are found.
FINDING OUR WORDS: Words That Made America is a collection of some of the most inspiring words spoken by American leaders since our founding, with every speech launched with a prefacing essay by Tracy Lee Simmons, longtime NR contributor and author of Climbing Parnassus, a popular case for classical education in America. In the essays, Simmons shows how each speech fits into the broad mosaic of the American story. Commerce with these words offers us one path back to citizenship, decency, and good sense.
Finding Our Words is for individuals and for use in education at all levels, exclusively or in conjunction with other works, for the study of language arts, U.S. history, civics, statesmanship, and elocution.
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